REM collections
Item Set
Title
REM collections
Relation
Items
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bust
A bronze bust of Gordon, life size, showing him in RE shell jacket and frock coat with frogging. Bolted to a grey-green marble base with a bronze scroll engraved "CHARLES GEORGE GORDON". [FHM 09/2019] -
Anṣār (الأنصار) jibba
An Anṣār (الأنصار) jibba Late-period smock-shaped garment, fawn in colour, with short sleeves. Features two rectangles of blue material are sewn on the back and front, placed one over the other. Also light blue patches on sleeves and brown decoration sewn on the sides and at the collar. [FHM 25/09/2019] -
Anṣār (الأنصار) jibba
Late-period anṣār (الأنصار) smock-shaped garment, fawn in colour, with short sleeves. Features patches of orange, brown, black and dark blue. [FHM 25/09/2019] -
Anṣār (الأنصار) jibbah
Anṣār (الأنصار) late-period smock-shaped garment, fawn in colour, with short sleeves. Two rectangles of blue material on back and front placed one over the other, probably indicating that the wearer was a follower of the Khalīfa ʿAbdullāhi’s Black Brigade (always described in Arabic as al-rayā al-zarqa, ‘blue banner’). [FHM 25/09/2019] -
Anṣār (الأنصار) Jibbah
An Anṣār (الأنصار) jibbah made of fawn coloured material with rectangles of brown and black sewn on front, back and sleeves. [FHM 25/09/2019] -
Telegram to Ḥamad [poss. Ḥussein] Khalīfa
Telegram on official Egyptian colonial form, with letterhead Administration des Télégraphes Egyptiens du Soudan and Arabic stamp. [FHM 25/09/2019] -
The Graphic
Copy of The Graphic, dated 1898-09-24. Account of the Battle of Omdurman under headline “The Avenging of Gordon”, with supplement giving history of Sudan up to the battle. Images show: The charge of the 21st Lancers (cover); Charles Neufeld, a prisoner of the Khalifa (p. 404); the defence of the Khalifa's black standard (p. 406); General Macdonald's brigade in action (p. 407); Kitchener's gunboat steaming south to Fashoda (p. 408 upper); a British officer on the advance to Omdurman (p. 408 lower); two photographs of officers and men of the 21st Lancers (p. 409); three hand-drawn maps of the Battle of Omdurman (p. 410 upper); occupied Omdurman (p. 410 lower); British forces firing on advancing Ansar (p. 411); Camel Corps soldiers at observation post at Wad Hamed (p. 412); advance of the 1st Brigade from Wad Hamed (p. 413); photograph of the band of the 11th Sudanese (p. 414 upper); battlefield overview (p. 414 middle); photograph of a Gatling battery (p. 414 lower); 11th Sudanese in the trenches (p. 415 upper); 14th Sudanese during the Battle of Omdurman (p. 415 lower); Maxim guns in action (p. 418 upper); The Mahdi's qubba (domed tomb) damaged by shall fire (p. 418 lower); five small illustrations, including two of Slatin Pasha (p. 419) [FHM 25/09/2019, FN/ON 09/02/2020] -
Anṣār (الأنصار) spear
Anṣār (الأنصار) spear; large metal spearhead decorated with hatching pattern at the base and a round sticker on one side which says "right"; long varnished wooden handle with three holes drilled into it for previous display. [FHM 25/09/2019] -
bowl
A large wooden Sudanese food bowl. The bowl has a very dark varnish and inscised geometric pattern on the rim. [FHM 25/09/2019] -
Finial of the Mahdī’s qubba
Large brass finial from the Mahdī’s domed tomb, or qubba. The dome was destroyed in late 1898 by gunboat fire from Gen. Kitchener's small Nile fleet. After the removal of the Mahdī’s body and its disposal in the Nile, the tomb was left in a badly damaged condition until reconstruction began in 1947, under the auspices of the Mahdī’s son, al-sayyid ʿAbd-al-Raḥman al-Mahdī, a successful businessman and important community leader. Photographs of the ruined qubba from 1898 show finials still in situ on the four corners of the tomb complex - and at least two of these survived well into the 20th Century. One is still displayed in the open air at the newly-restored Beit Khalifa Museum in Omdurman. A second was mounted on the clock tower at Blair Castle in Scotland but was destroyed in a fire in 2011. A small brass plaque at the base of the rebuilt clock tower states that the finial (now replaced by a replica) was "taken by Major the Marquis of Tullibardine [eldest son of the Duke of Atholl] Egyptian Cavalry after the Battle of Omdurman, from the N.E. corner tower of the Mahdi's tomb" in September 1898. The finial in this display was presented in February 1904 to HRH Princess Beatrice, wife of Prince Henry of Battenburg, by Colonel Drage of the Royal Artillery on the occasion of her visit to Khartoum. Before arriving at the REM, it was on display at the National Army Museum. [FHM 25/09/2019, FN/ON 12/01/2021] -
Sketch Map of Sudan in February 1879, drawn by Col. C. G. Gordon
Descriptive map of Sudan under Ottoman/Egyptian colonial occupation, drawn by Col. Charles Gordon in ink and watercolour during his first assignment as Governor-General of Sudan (18/2/1877-8/12/1879). The map is extensively annotated in French, the only language Gordon had in common with senior occupation personnel. Contains detailed information about the distribution of Egyptian garrisons, troop numbers and the economic position of each province. Framed in oak; signed and dated 25.2.79 by Gordon. [FHM 25/09/2019, FN/ON 09/02/2020] -
Qur'anic lesson board
Sudanese version of the school slate, carved from sunut hardwood (acacia arabica). The ink was made from a combination of soot and gum, a valuable local product. The board contains an extract from the Qur'an (to be determined), which the pupil at a religious school (khalwa) was charged with learning the entire holy book by heart. [FHM 25/09/2019]